Those gungho-y-est of campus organizations, CCSC and the EcoReps, win this week's Bwog award for most funnest use of Microsoft Excel with their new website. One bar graph reveals that the average Carman resident excretes over 5 pounds of carbon a week. A pie chart proves that John Jay is an energy-gobbling monster, which Bwog's resident common sensicalist attributes to the kitchen appliances of JJ's and the dining hall, and which Bwog's your-book-smarts-won't-get-you-far-in-the-real-world arm attributes to high elevator use in such a tall building. For those less concerned with the time-burning joys of pie-charting and bad-joking, here's a feed of environews and the reason our roads will some day reek of french fries.
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March 13, 2008
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ALL HAIL EDWARD TUFTE
MASTER OF DATA PRESENTATION
MASTER OF DATA PRESENTATION
Tufte can have my extremely clear and readable children.
clearly wallach wins with 0% energy usage.
why isn't that kwh/person? it would be a lot more informative...
why isn't that kwh/person? it would be a lot more informative...
Barnard doesn't have any excretions because, apparently, girls don't poop.
for the record, when Bwog says CCSC, it means Alidad is responsible for working with the EcoReps on this one.
minus 0.5 points for posting the third chart with stretch handles visible...
grad student apathy in your favor. it's actually the fourth chart. collect your 0.5 points back...
I saw that too. I was thinking - great! They are letting us adjust the graphs ourselves! I kept trying to click on the stretch controls to no avail.
same. how exactly does that happen anyway? did they take a screenshot or what?
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This is interesting data, and it deserves to be presented in a way that allows people to use it fully. Right now it's just pretty. Even a simple bar chart makes it trivial to compare two dorms, see which one emits the most, etc., WITHOUT the pain of trying to compare tilted slices.